Lumpy Jake Quotes & Sayings

The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable. — Douglas Preston

worked in New York my whole life - actually lived only about twenty blocks away - and had never even heard of this place, or the Freedom Tunnel, for that matter. This city never failed to surprise. Hamster got out of the car, his big eyes blinking through the tangled gray mop of his hair as he looked around. We listened to the cooing of pigeons nesting in the crevices of the raised roadbed above as we waited. — James Patterson

If it works, it's out of date. — David Bowie

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. — Thomas Fuller

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it. — Peter Jurasik

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me. — Bernie Worrell

I love being able to create characters, give them problems, and make sure everything turns out right in the end. Writing gives me limitless opportunity to study the human condition, and a love story with a positive ending always lifts my spirits and warms my heart. — Jennie Adams

Heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it, - which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me, — Chris Marker

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what! — Jennifer

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter. — Mary Pipher